JM Lanuza

Anticipating 2026 me cursing 2025 me for having three manuscript side quests when I should be dissertating lol 🤡

Against All Odds: Journalist Resistance against State Disinformation in the Philippines In the Philippines, disinformation and authoritarian rhetoric and governance accompanied a sharp decline in the respect for civil liberties and democratic institutions. This persistent culture of i...

ONLINE FIRST! Philippine journalists persist in leading anti-disinformation efforts despite violence and low trust, relying on intrinsic motivations but facing sustainability and safety challenges. Read this study by Jose Mari Hall Lanuza and Rossine Fallorina
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Some days you just wanna

Numb after all the rejections for this manuscript, will just send everywhere. Nothing to lose now *laughs maniacally*

2026 please be kind lol

Rogan Misses The Mark: How Zuck’s Misdirection On Gov’t Pressure Goes Unchallenged If you only remember two things about the government pressure campaign to influence Mark Zuckerberg’s content moderation decisions, make it these: Donald Trump directly threatened to throw Zuck in …

Masnick brings the receipts in this detailed “fact-check” of Zuckerberg’s interview by Joe Rogan, where the duo pushed a twisted narrative about the Biden admin pressuring Meta, and ignored how Zuck’s recent moves come after and in response to open threats by Trump.

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/r...

Just submitted a manuscript and I wanna 🤢

You have to click the Learn More button to discover it's AI. Also note that it's "verified," which destroys all remaining meaning for that functionality. You can't block the acct either.

Holidaze

The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count

New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years.

Trust in news declined in just over half of countries.

It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown.

A thread:

Took longer than I thought but here we are

*taps the meme*

Ten bucks says Yoon won't last the year

Today I opened this app and found more than 10 people suddenly following me, what is up? Why the sudden migration? Sincerely thought this was abandoned because people originally moved when Elon got the bird app

My sincere thanks to people posting videos of IU singing Through The Night in Manila 🥲

What to feel when systems can call it "a lousy excuse" if I say I'm paralyzed by all the bad things happening in the world and I can't continue giving towards the productivity illusion of capitalist modernity. Where's my - our - humanity in carrying on like business as usual?

At some point academics need to stop talking and start doing, yeah?

Istfg each new notice takes a month off my lifespan

Thank you universe 🌠

My dual screen, and then me:

The good and the bad in February:

1) I started using an ergonomic split keyboard and it is helping.
2) An acquaintance killed himself due to toxic work environments and it's unexpectedly heavier than I thought it would be.

Major ick with A LOT of people from *that* mailing list

Finally using the phrase "X, formerly known as Twitter" in academic papers and it is such a gross feeling

Discourse around misinformation doesn't always line up w/ our research team's findings re: how falsehoods actually spread in online spaces. Here, I provide a more nuanced view, describing the problem of misinformation as one of collective sensemaking gone awry: www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...

Normalizing rejection in academia (I guess)

How Sam Altman plays into Microsoft's ambitions The company wants to sell you cloud services to power all that AI garbage

After a weekend of boardroom drama, Microsoft won by hiring Sam Altman to spin up a new AI division.

But don’t ignore the company’s grander ambitions: to use AI to pave the way for a massive expansion of its cloud business. Do we really need all those data centers to make people’s lives better?

I'm not impressed with how we're already talking about critically applying AI *in education* (or any other field), when the question of whether we can justify consuming the natural resources AI operations require IS NOT CLOSED YET.